From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 17:10:29 +0000 Message-ID: <878ut7av0a.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> References: <52FCD2B4.5080006@yandex.ru> <52FD9F1D.50205@yandex.ru> <83mwhucg1h.fsf@gnu.org> <878ute589i.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83d2iqc84m.fsf@gnu.org> <87wqgxkcr9.fsf@yandex.ru> <834n41db0d.fsf@gnu.org> <52FE2985.4070703@yandex.ru> <831tz5daes.fsf@gnu.org> <8738jlohd6.fsf@yandex.ru> <83txc1bl83.fsf@gnu.org> <5300189A.9090208@yandex.ru> <83wqgv9fbj.fsf@gnu.org> <20140216180712.236069f6@forcix.jorgenschaefer.de> <83sirj9cyp.fsf@gnu.org> <20140217203145.71a849f7@forcix.jorgenschaefer.de> <837g8t8ouc.fsf@gnu.org> <87mwho68qu.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <18bny4cncz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392829865 12521 80.91.229.3 (19 Feb 2014 17:11:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 17:11:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jorgen Schaefer , dgutov@yandex.ru To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 19 18:11:12 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WGAfv-0001uP-Hs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:11:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60835 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGAfv-0008B3-0Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:11:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56322) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGAfo-0008Ai-3E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:11:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGAfj-00034A-BR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:11:04 -0500 Original-Received: from cheviot12.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.12]:40788) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGAfj-00033K-59; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:10:59 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129]) by cheviot12.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1WGAfh-0005Rw-AW; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 17:10:57 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost (jangai.ncl.ac.uk [10.66.67.223]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id s1JHAugl017073 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 19 Feb 2014 17:10:56 GMT In-Reply-To: <18bny4cncz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Tue, 18 Feb 2014 13:00:28 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169764 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > Phillip Lord wrote: > >> It might also be writing this up -- is there a description anywhere of >> "how to submit a change to Emacs", and should it not be in the elisp >> manual? > > etc/CONTRIBUTE > Info node `(emacs)Contributing' Ah, thanks. Was looking in the elisp manual instead, but it is good. Once I had found etc/CONTRIBUTE, I read it. It is quite long though. And it has statements like: It is important to write your patch based on the latest version. If you start from an older version, your patch may be outdated (so that maintainers will have a hard time applying it), or changes in Emacs may have made your patch unnecessary. Every patch must have several pieces of information before we can properly evaluate it. When you have all these pieces, bundle them up in a mail message and send it to the developers. Please use "Context Diff" format. It does seem rather heavy-weight to me. Phil